Sentences with phrase «of cultivated tomato»
Natural variation exists in the levels of pectate lyase gene expression in wild relatives of cultivated tomato and these can be used for conventional breeding purposes.
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My stringy and nearly leafless heirloom tomato plants — the ones I was so excited to cultivate so I could pluck juicy mater orbs straight from the vine and take a big old bite out of their still warm flesh — are as lifeless and lilting as a 6 foot, 95 - pound fashion model prepping for her fall debut on the catwalk.
To find the gene behind the color change, Powell and colleagues crossed cultivated varieties of tomatoes with wild species.
One might assume that one of these known wild species became today's cultivated crop, but that's not the case: the Mother Tomato has never been found.
New World Discovery The cultivated tomato is a member of the nightshade family that includes New World crops such as potato and chili pepper, which spread around the world after Christopher Columbus brought them back to Spain in the 15th century.
«It is totally possible to use human urine as a fertilizer instead of industrial fertilizer,» says Heinonen - Tanski, whose research group has also used urine to cultivate cucumbers, cabbage and tomatoes.
This work relies on natural variation for these traits that is present in cultivated tomato and in the 12 wild relatives of tomato that occur in South America.